AGO+ Podcast Update: Introducing Youtube and Audio Download Options

Greetings, everyone! In search of the best way to deliver the AGO+ Podcast, we're offering new options. There will now be direct-download versions linked to this site, and AGO+'s Youtube channel will now feature every episode with bonus navigational features, so at home or on the go, you can have your media how you want …

AGO+ Podcast: Episode 1 – “November Gaming News”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ERbjIasLM For a Direct-Download Audio Version, click HERE In this gaming episode of the AGO+ Podcast, we discuss the Nintendo Direct from November 1, 2018, zeroing in on the best of what's there, as well as what's potentially missing to make Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the ultimate entry. Additionally, Metroid Prime 4 rumors, Zelda rumors, …

AGO+ Podcast: Episode 0 – “Nintendo Direct 9/13/18”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaBRPNrchZY For a Direct-Download Audio Version, click HERE In this pilot episode of the AGO+ Podcast, we discuss the Nintendo Direct from September 13, 2018, recounting the announcements but also digging into them with analysis and forecasts that have become increasingly relevant in the interim, given recent reports about the video game industry. Along the …

Update on Hiatus and a Preview of the Future

[Announcement!] The Anime & Gaming Outpost is not back from hiatus just yet, but a revival and relaunch are being explored. Various long-term creative projects and unforeseen responsibilities led to a premature hiatus of AGO! after launch. One of the unpublished works from that time, the Gungrave video game review, has recently gone live. It …

Gungrave: A Graveyard Blast

By Peter W. Smorynski [Review: Gaming!] Title: GUNGRAVE Platform: Playstation 2 Publisher: Sega Developer: Red Entertainment ESRB Rating: M Year: 2002 Editor's Note: This previously unpublished review was originally written for an AGO! special Halloween feature in 2008 An undead gunman walks the streets of a corrupt city. Carrying his own coffin on his back, …

Contra 4: Return of the Run ‘n’ Gun King

By Peter W. Smorynski [Review: Gaming!] Title: CONTRA 4 Platform: Nintendo DS Publisher: Konami Developer: WayForward Technologies ESRB Rating: T Year: 2007 A military helicopter zooms toward the archipelago of Galuga, off the coast of New Zealand. Aboard this craft are the four strongest soldiers on Earth, known collectively as "Contra." Their mission: to eliminate …

AGO! Scoring System

[Announcement!] Below is the 6-point scale used by AGO! in the final evaluation of anime and games: [!] - - - - - Subpar [!] [!] - - - - Rental [!] [!] [!] - - - Average [!] [!] [!] [!] - - Solid [!] [!] [!] [!] [!] - Stellar [!] [!] [!] …

Mega Man 9: Robotic Recycling or Revival?

By Peter W. Smorynski [Editorial: Games!] Is Mega Man 9 being overhyped? There's no doubt it's a must-play game, especially for Mega Man fans, but the buzz about it being among "the best" in the series seems to be crossing the line. As a fan of Mega Man since Mega Man 2 on the NES …

Creativity has a New Home: AGO! Welcomes You!

[Announcement!] Welcome to the Anime & Gaming Outpost! I'm [Pete], editor-in-chief, blogmaster, and outpost guide. The AGO! is a fresh new blog taking an unconventional, analytical, and even avant-garde look at the state of creativity through editorials and reviews on the mediums of, and related to, anime and gaming. With an aim to give readers …